Authorless Speech

Waiting for words to come that hold and carry

All the weight, all the depth of my affection

I resign lately to abandon language

There are none our vocabulary offers

You are, you are all I’ve ever wanted

More than boyhood dreams could have expected

I’d wait a great many more lifetimes over again

And writing the same ending would become so

Much the same that I’d forget

Do you fear the same things I do

Conversations echoing through

Empty hallways’ authorless speech

No familiar hand within reach

Know that I am as scared as you

Of the thought of losing you

Can’t say what I’d do

Of the thought of losing you

Can’t say what I’d do